The star of this picture isn't the fruit fly, it's the columns of thousands of nematodes on the right working together to catch a lift. This is also the first time that scientists have formally ...

Word of a curious worm phenomenon has spread among scientists over the years. Words like, “they’re living in giant towers, Jim.” An understandably perplexing concept, but one that we can now confirm ...

Nature seems to offer an escape from the hustle and bustle of city life, but the world at your feet may tell another story. Even in the shade of a fruit tree, you could be surrounded by tiny ...

Nematodes tiny yet mighty form wriggling towers to survive and travel as a team. Long thought to exist only in labs, scientists have now spotted these towers naturally forming in rotting orchard fruit ...

For years, scientists have watched nematodes build massive superorganisms in the form of writhing towers. But, they've only seen it happen in the lab. Now, though, researchers write that they've ...

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